Visual Basic VB and MicroStation ActiveX Components for VB Programmers VB

LA Solutions staff have written a number of technical articles. These include programming, MicroStation^®, GeoGraphics^™, and relational databases. Some articles describe aspects of MicroStation software development, and others provide code examples.

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Visual Basic™

Visual Basic™ Development

Title	Article Location	Sample Code
Advanced MicroStation Detector	MicroStation Detector DLL	MicroStationDetector ZIP Archive
File & Folder Browsing	Files and Folders	Example VB and VBA code available
MicroStation V8 Database Connectivity	ZIP Archive	ZIP archive includes article & code sample
Controlling MicroStation V8 with Visual Basic	ZIP Archive	ZIP archive includes article & code sample
Simple MicroStation Detector	PDF Document	MicroStationDetector VBA Source
Text Wrap	VB Project for Text Wrap and Justification	VB Project in ZIP archive
Viewing Thumbnails	Viewing File Thumbnails	Viewing File Thumbnails

Visual Basic is not VBA

Microsoft provides Visual Basic for Applications to software vendors in its VBA Toolkit. The vendor uses the VBA Toolkit to implement and customise VBA for their application. VBA generates binary code that is tightly coupled to the host application. The code is in a container whose nature depends on the vendor's policy. For example, a Microsoft Excel™ VBA project is stored in an Excel workbook or add-in. A MicroStation VBA project is stored in a .mvba file.

Visual Basic cannot read a .mvba binary file. If you want to move VBA code to a VB project, then you should export the source code from the VBA project. Export code from the VBA Interactive Development Environment (IDE) by right-clicking in the Project window and choose the Export option from the pop-up menu.